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Linux Kernel 3.19 series

The third release of Linux Kernel 3.19 series was released yesterday by Greg Kroah-Hartman. All users of this kernel series were urged to upgrade as soon as possible.

Linux Kernel 3.19.3 comes with many fixes and enhancements for ARM, ARM64, PowerPC, s390, SPARC, and x86 architectures, fixes to the FUSE and NILFS2 file systems, updated drivers for Radeon and Intel graphics cards, sound and networking improvements. See the changelog for details.

How to Upgrade to Kernel 3.19.3:

For Desktop users, first check out your OS type, 32-bit (i386) or 64-bit (amd64), then download and install the packages below in turn:

If for some reason, the new kernel does not work properly for you, reboot with the previous Kernel (Grub boot loader -> Advanced -> select previous kernel) and run below command in terminal to remove the Linux Kernel 3.19.3:

Tip: For Desktop machine running with a proprietary video driver, you may have to re-build/re-install the driver for the new kernel.

If for some reason, the new kernel does not work properly for you, reboot with the previous Kernel (Grub boot loader -> Advanced -> select previous kernel) and run below command to remove the Linux Kernel 3.19.1:

The first stable release of Linux Kernel 3.19 was released yesterday by Linus Torvalds. He wrote on the Linux Kernel Mailing List:

So nothing all that exciting happened, and while I was tempted a couple of times to do an rc8, there really wasn’t any reason for it.

Just as an example, Sasha Levin used KASan and found an interesting bug in paravirtualized spinlocks, but realistically it’s been around forever, and it’s not even clear that it can really ever trigger in practice. We’ll get it fixed, and mark it for stable, and tempting as it was, it wasn’t really a reason to delay 3.19.

And the actual fixes that went in (see appended shortlog) were all fairly small, with the exception of some medium-sized infiniband changes that were all reverting code that just wasn’t ready.

So it’s out there – go and get it. And as a result, the merge window for 3.20 is obviously also now open.

What’s new in the Linux Kernel 3.19:

SI/CI SMC fan control support within the Radeon driver. Should reduce the fan noise on systems with a higher default fan profile.

Tip: For Desktop machine running with a proprietary video driver, you may have to re-build/re-install the driver for the new kernel.

If for some reason, the new kernel does not work properly for you, reboot with the previous Kernel (Grub boot loader -> Advanced -> select previous kernel) and run below command to remove the Linux Kernel 3.19: